Word: novelists
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...Novelist Amos Oz is a prominent figure in the country's peace movement. He is the author of a collection of essays, Israel, Palestine and Peace, and of novels, including The Same...
...terror of this loss goes way beyond writers, of course. It's just that writers depend on the ability to make connections out of thin air, or no air. The novelist Jean Stafford lived with the dread that she would be crippled by a stroke (she was). H.L. Mencken was a stroke victim who, at the end of his life, was unable to read or write. One of those who sat at his bedside and read to him was Manchester...
DIED. SIR FRED HOYLE, 86, eminent but irascible astronomer who coined the term Big Bang theory to distinguish it, derisively, from his own belief that the universe was infinite in time and space; in Bournemouth, England. A popular science-fiction novelist (The Black Cloud, 1957) and former BBC radio broadcaster, Hoyle was best known for his monumental 1957 paper on the origins of elements, for which--to his annoyance--he was passed over for a Nobel Prize...
...EGADS, EGAN: "I know that everyone is talking about Jonathan Franzen this fall, but don?t you need a female voice as a counterpoint?" asks a publicist at Doubleday. The female voice she has in mind is that of novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan, whose second novel, "Look at Me," will be published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday on September 18. Egan has a lot going for her: superagent Binky Urban, a 15-city reading tour, and confirmed coverage in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, O, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Talk, Paper, Vanity Fair and the NYT Book Review...
...weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Destiny's Child?all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. The phenomenon has already become a pop-culture staple, propelling hip-hop acts like Dragon Ash to Japanese platinum success and launching the career of best-selling novelist Amy Yamada, whose memoirish Bedroom Eyes detailed a Japanese woman's sexual exploits with black servicemen...